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ing re ed that Suarez is on there and not RVP. Dunno why Wenger is on the manager shortlist either.
Barca dominates Ballon d'Or list
Posted November 02, 2011 07:17:37
Photo: Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi will be favourite to take out another Ballon d'Or. (Lluis Gene: AFP)
Wayne Rooney was revealed as the sole Englishman nominated on the 23-man shortlist for the 2011 Ballon d'Or, pitted against eight players from Champions League winners Barcelona.
Rooney helped Manchester United win the Premier League le for a record 19th time, and scored in their Champions League final defeat to Barcelona, but the Catalans once again dominate the list.
Lionel Messi is favourite to win the award for the third year running, while Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta, who completed last year's podium, are again named.
The other Barcelona players named are defender Eric Abidal - who was diagnosed with a liver tumour in March but recovered to play in the Champions League final - Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, David Villa and Cesc Fabregas, who moved to the Camp Nou from Arsenal in the summer.
Barca's bitter rivals Real Madrid are also heavily represented with five nominees, as 2008 Ballon d'Or Cristiano Ronaldo is joined by Iker Casillas, Xabi Alonso, Mesut Ozil and Frenchman Karim Benzema.
In total, seven Spanish internationals are shortlisted.
Apart from Rooney, only three English-based players are named, with Liverpool's Luis Suarez and Manchester United's Nani joined by Sergio Aguero, who left Atletico Madrid for Manchester City in the summer.
Brazilian teenage sensation Neymar, who player for Santos, is the first player based outside of Europe to be shortlisted since Boca Juniors' Juan Roman Riquelme in 2007.
In the coach of the year category, ten names were shortlisted with the chance to succeed Jose Mourinho, last year's winner.
Real Madrid coach Mourinho is on a diverse list that also features Sir Alex Ferguson, as well as Oscar Washington Tabarez, who led Uruguay to glory in the Copa America.
Barcelona's Josep Guardiola will take some beating, however.
A panel of journalists, as well as the coaches and captains of FIFA's 208 member associations will vote for the winners, who will be announced at a gala in Zurich, Switzerland on January 9 next year.
Ballon d'Or nominees:
Eric Abidal (FRA/Barcelona), Karim Benzema (FRA/Real Madrid), Sergio Aguero (ARG/Manchester City), Iker Casillas (ESP/Real Madrid), Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/Real Madrid), Daniel Alves (BRA/Barcelona), Samuel Eto'o (CMR/Anzhi Makhachkala), Cesc Fabregas (ESP/Barcelona), Diego Forlan (URU/Inter Milan), Andres Iniesta (ESP/Barcelona), Lionel Messi (ARG/Barcelona), Thomas Muller (GER/Bayern Munich), Nani (POR/Manchester United), Neymar (BRA/Santos), Mesut Ozil (GER/Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (ESP/Barcelona), Wayne Rooney (ENG/Manchester United), Bastian Schweinsteiger (GER/Bayern Munich), Wesley Sneijder (NED/Inter Milan), Luis Suarez (URU/Liverpool), David Villa (ESP/Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (ESP/Real Madrid), Xavi Hernandez (ESP/Barcelona).
Coach of the year nominees:
Vicente Del Bosque (ESP/Spain), Sir Alex Ferguson (SCO/Manchester United), Rudi Garcia (FRA/Lille), Josep Guardiola (ESP/Barcelona), Jurgen Klopp (GER/Borussia Dortmund), Joachim Loew (GER/Germany), Jose Mourinho (POR/Real Madrid), Oscar Tabarez (URU/Uruguay), Andre Villas-Boas (POR/Chelsea), Arsene Wenger (FRA/Arsenal).
ing re ed that Suarez is on there and not RVP. Dunno why Wenger is on the manager shortlist either.
And they had enough room for Pique and Abidal...Christ.
Holy I just noticed no David Silva
This
Barcuefa
No Silva or RVP...and I don't get why Abidal, Pique, Fabregas, Benzema, and even Aguero are all on there ahead of those 2.
lol ty list
Eric Abidal (FRA/Barcelona), Karim Benzema (FRA/Real Madrid)
Suarez made the top 10!!!
Lol Forlan
WTF
No Silva or RVP...and I don't get why Abidal, Pique, Fabregas, Benzema, and even Aguero are all on there ahead of those 2.
lol @ that list... Van Persie is overrated as though...
No Italian
Lol It....
no david silva....fkn lame
hence mancity if some of their regular starters can play the full season they should be in the running...
Silva proving again why this list is pure garbage.
At least there was room for an Italian.
No Redknapp?
lol blatter talkin about clearning corruption, that list is corrupted as it is...fail....EPIC
the 3 finalists: Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi
Again ?
This award is Messi's to lose
iniesta instead of gaynaldo last year.Again ?
Oops
You are right
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...-world?cc=5901Ibrahimovic: I'm better than Messi
Lolwut
Messi again it seems, would be bad. Xavi deserves it for the last 3-4 years...
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